Papa John’s founder John Schnatter was just forced to step down as CEO

This afternoon, Papa John’s announced the pizza company’s founder, largest shareholder, and chairman of the board, John Schnatter, will be stepping down from his position as CEO, after a backlash to his remarks criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice.

BREAKING: Papa John's founder John Schnatter to step down as CEO; announcement comes weeks after he criticized NFL over protests.

In so doing, he sounded like the president he supports, Donald Trump, who called the football players, ignited by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, “sons of bitches,” after calling white supremacists stoking racial violence in Charlottesville “very fine people.”

Though he will maintain his other roles behind the scenes at Papa John’s, we will no longer have to see Schnatter as the face of his pizza chain.

This turn of events proves that voting with our dollars is a great way to make change between elections.

Lucia Brawley is a Harvard- and Yale-educated writer, producer, actor, and political organizer. She runs the progressive political Facebook group Consenting to Lead. To learn more, please go to luciabrawley.com. Follow her on Twitter: @luciabrawley